| Element of course |
Module 1: Leading
people and organization |
Module 2: Upskilling staff |
Module 3: Change for students |
Module 4: Innovate & lead other settings |
| AIMS |
This module is all about
leading staff and
organizational change.
You will take simple but
thoughtful steps to help
you identify what will have
the greatest impact within
your setting for the most
vulnerable and
challenging students. You
will demonstrate key
leadership competencies
and be able to evidence
the impact of your actions
on your setting. |
Your staff will have
access to comprehensive
professional development
for working with the most
challenging students. The
five online courses
are Attachment in the
Classroom; Behavior as
Communication;
Advanced Listening Skills
and, Resilience for
learning and How to
Support Students in a
Crisis.This module translates
your Supportive role –
which is often about what
happens outside of the
classroom – to getting
knee deep in the art of
pedagogy. |
You will work with a
minimum of five students
and through coaching and
working with other staff, will
create and implement an
action plan that will evidence
a positive impact for the
young people you are
working with. Alongside this
you will ensure that
colleagues in your setting
are aware of their duties for
working with vulnerable
students and you will
evidence how you have
effectively supported them. |
In this module, you will have
the opportunity to embrace
your own specific area of
interest and develop an
innovative practice for your
school and share it with other
settings. The idea is that you
become not only an expert
leader in your own school but
you are able to support other
schools as well. This could be
through small group or
individual coaching or larger
workshops or lectures. The
key will be to follow up and
find out what your training led
to in change and impact. |
Practicing
Skills and
Action
Points |
Write an
ORGANISATIONAL
PLAN:
• Identified need
• Action plan
• Implement
• Working with
staff
• Tracking impact |
Work with a minimum of
5 staff to support their
learning through the IE
SEMH online-learning
program
Track evidence of their
learning, what they implemented and the
impact this had on key
students and the whole
class. |
Work with a minimum of 5
vulnerable and/or
challenging students and
support their transformation:
• Identify needs
• Action plan
• Working with staff
• Liaising with key
stakeholders
• Tracking impact |
Develop innovation practice to
meet needs of SEMH in your
setting:
• Identify a need
• Action plan
• Implementation
• Review of impact
Support minimum of 2 other
settings in training in your
innovation either through
workshop or 1:1 |
| Support |
Coaching sessions, webinars and resources, Online course content, IT help, a mentor, group sessions with other students,
guidance from the university, additional training from other organizations that are contributing to this course. |
| Assessment |
Each Module will be assed with one 4000-5000 word essay.
You will be expected to have read and be able to cite research in organizational leadership, staff development and so on.
This academic deep dive will furnish you with new ways of viewing your work. |
Folio of
Evidence
|
Throughout the course, you will record into a folder evidence of what you have learned, what you did and what the impact
was. This folder will be worth 40% of your overall grade. |
Masters
Dissertation |
You will be provided with guidance and support directly by the University of Buckingham in how to complete this research
project. See the link to the Masters Dissertation section. |
